Issues / 2003
Streettalk
Q: What aspects of living on the Central Coast are you thankful for?Follow-up: What''s your favorite holiday food? Evelyn SchutzlerRetired | MarinaA: Having just gotten back from Hawaii, I''m thankful for the lovely weather. It''s ...
Letters to the Editor for Nov 27, 2003
On Guitar: Randy Swanson!Thank you, Michelle Caldwell, for your kind article, "Bang a Gong" [831, Nov. 20-26]. My name is Randy Swanson. I am pictured playing the guitar, and identified as "Randy Swanser." I point ...
Coco Beat works hard to keep the laid-back island vibe on.
There might not be any harder working local band than Coco Beat. The four-year-old quintet plays at least three nights a week, plus a weekly Sunday morning performance at the Community Church of the Monterey ...
Confessions of a once-chubby American.
Part I Roots of the Conflict Maybe it all started with grilled cheese. Yes, the evidence points to the grilled cheese sandwich as the root cause of my childhood girth, seeing that throughout the formative ...
Tracey Adams' world combines earth tones with archetypal imagery.
Photo: "Coracle with Aqueduct" is a good example of Tracey Adams'' iconic style. Tracey Adams is one local artist who has arrived at that enviable place where her imagery, technique and emotional concerns merge into ...
Science of Death: Edwin Black's book blasts American eugenics for helping Hitler.
Adolf Hitler didn''t think much of the United States, but during his rise to power he repeatedly singled out one aspect of American life for praise: our eugenic policies. In Mein Kampf, Hitler applauded America''s ...
Squid Fry for Nov 27, 2003
KINKY DEER IN THE HEADLIGHTS... Squid looks back fondly on Squid's younger, wilder days. Back in Squid's prime, Squid was a mollusk magnet. And yes, back in the day, Squid had been known to enjoy ...
8 Days A Week
thursday 11|27 Community Dinner Noon-3pm. A traditional community Thanksgiving dinner is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Monterey. Donations of volunteer-time and food are still needed. Monterey Fairgrounds, 2004 Fairgrounds Rd., Monterey. Call 647-5845. Community ...
The 13th annual Feast for AIDS delivers non-stop gourmet yummies while raising thousands to fight AIDS.
Photo by Jane Morba: Monterey County AIDS Project Director Wayne Johnson (right), shown with event chair Jeffrey Jake, says that this year''s theme for the Feast For AIDS is "the challenge continues." At last year''s ...
The Scalping Party: Recently uncovered wartime atrocities show a dark side of American history.
Photo: A Pentagon investigation into the Tiger Force atrocities was scuttled in 1975, when Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense. In his dark masterpiece, Blood Meridian (1985), novelist Cormac McCarthy tells the terrifying tale of ...
Shattered Glass chronicles one reporter's losing battle with truth.
Photo: Poison Pen: Hayden Christensen as journalist Stephen Glass thinks of another whopper. Journalistic ethics are scrupulously explored in this dramatization of real-life New Republic writer Stephen Glass'' meteoric rise and rapid collapse in the ...
Foodchain
A GOOD TIME FOR A GOOD CAUSE, PT. 1: This Sunday is an important event at the Beach Club in Pebble Beach. Jeffrey Jake, executive chef for Pebble Beach, will oversee this year''s Feast For ...
Hotpicks
thursday 11|27 The Overflowed Cup COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNERS From noon to 3pm the Kiwanis Club of Monterey holds its 33rd annual traditional Thanksgiving Dinner at the Monterey Fairgrounds--a chaotic outpouring of warmth and love made ...
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DAVE MATTHEWS BANDThe Central Park ConcertRCA Records After the Dave Matthew Band's first live release Live at Red Rocks, the group's subsequent releases have been somewhat mixed. Up and down not only with their redundant ...
Newsbriefs
Please Don''t Eat the GrasshoppersState health officials are warning the public--most notably children and pregnant women--not to eat chapulines (grasshoppers), a snack food in the Oaxacan diet available in local groceries and eateries. The discovery ...
Odd casting choices mar an otherwise beautiful Human Stain.
Photo: Only Human: Faunia (Nicole Kidman) consoles her lover, Coleman (Anthony Hopkins), in the movie adaptation of Philip Roth''s novel. Somewhat near the end of this adaptation of the 1998 Philip Roth novel, a woman ...
Visitors will be able to watch as giant condors are released into their historic home after at least a 30-year absence.
Photo by Phil McKenna: Tall Tales: Fred Sharp and George Hageman swap condor stories last week in Hollister. An upcoming release of condors at the Pinnacles National Monument will end more than a century''s absence ...
Spacious In Skyline Forest.
Photos by Brett Wilbur: A Family Affair: Designed by the owner with the help of an architect nephew, this Skyline Forest home has enough room for two families. When Roger Born was looking for a ...
The Beats Go On: Jerry Cimino's shrine to Kerouac, et al, keeps the flame of the '50s alive.
Photo: Spiritual Cleaninghouse: Jerry Cimino, shown in Kerouac Park in Mass., wants his ''50s Beat museum and Website to feed hungry souls. Jerry Cimino bustles around his Beat Museum, on Franklin Street in downtown Monterey, ...
Debate continues about the necessity or harmfulness of October burns.
Photo by Jane Morba: Burning Bright: Smoke from the Oct. 23 Fort Ord burn billowed high. The embers of the October 2003 Fort Ord fire still glow hot for a small core of local activists ...
Mick Overman mixes a little blues and jazz into his folksy stuff.
Photo: Living The Dream: Nick Overman grew up to be what he wanted. When Mick Overman was about 10 years old, his teacher instructed the class to draw a picture of what they wanted to ...
A Japanese restaurant in Marina takes me back to my days in Osaka.
Photo by Jane Morba: Domo Arigato: The meals at Yamato are like real experiences in Japan. I go to the Yamato restaurant in Marina, because this is where the Japanese people in town eat. That''s ...
Johnny Apodaca shows off his large-scale paintings, and the small works they're based on.
Photo; "The Golden Hour" (left), a 20x20-inch oil painting, is based on this 9x11-inch plein air sketch (right). Painting is visual poetry, summoning ideas through the sensation of sight. Expressing the ineffable, a painter manipulates ...
Hate For State keeps the classic hard-and-fast punk rock sound alive.
Photo: Hats Are Great: Salinas'' Hat-wearing Hate for State. Great punk rock is all about breaking down the barriers of a restricting society. During Hate For State''s show this Thursday night, Nov. 20, at Club ...
Streettalk
Q: What would you like to find while on a treasure hunt?Follow-up: Where would you begin looking for it? Miguel SuarezBlockbuster Clerk | MontereyA: A golden cigarette case full of hundred dollar bills and a ...
Letters to the Editor for Nov 20, 2003
Weekly Wants More CasualtiesNormally I find your far-left propaganda rag amusing, but last week's issue disgusted me. I could go on for days, but I'll try to focus on the main point. I am a ...
Discspace
GUIDED BY VOICESThe Best of Guided By Voices: Human Amusements At Hourly RatesMatador Records On Human Amusements At Hourly Rates, Guided By Voices' massive catalogue gets butchered, and it's not a bad thing. Since the ...
Sondheim's songs take center stage in MPC production.
Photo: Vocal Acrobatics: The cast of Side by Side by Sondheim revs up the musical experience. For people who like musicals, MPC Theater Company''s production of Side by Side by Sondheim is like sucking jelly ...
Squid Fry for Nov 20, 2003
GENERAL DISASTER... Squid couldn't believe Squid's eyes upon reading County Supervisor Lou Calcagno's comments in the daily rag, strongly hinting that the General Plan Update team may get the boot. "The big question is, how ...
United Farmworkers co-founder Dolores Huerta rallies immigrants to fight for legal status.
Photo: Dolores Huerta hasn''t lost steam after 50 years of struggling for labor rights. (Right) Dolores Huerta, by Pablo Acevedo. After a week of phone calls and four days of rescheduling, Dolores Huerta''s daughter, Alicia ...
The Magic Circle Center's The Dining Room turns WASPy tradition on its head.
Photo: Table Time: Six actors portraying 58 characters get a lot of meal time in The Dining Room. We all know that life is fleeting, and that the values we set store by will, one ...
Urban Funk Machine tools in from New Orleans via San Francisco.
In 1991, Scott Woods moved to New Orleans intending to graduate from Tulane University with a geology degree. But after seeing New Orleans'' groups like The Meters, Woods realized that he was learning more about ...
Our friends Bugs and Daffy are back, with some human pals, in fine style.
Photo: Confusing?: Daffy Duck helps Brendan Frasier rescue his father, and a diamond, from Acme''s evil CEO in Looney Tunes'' return film. Warner Bros.'' Looney Tunes franchise has been going for 73 years, and from ...
Endorsements
Yes on Measure Q: For good reasons, and for selfish reasons, Natividad Medical Center deserves our money. Dr. David Dansky doesn't work at Natividad Medical Center. He doesn't stand to lose his job, or his ...
Artifacts
CAN''T GET ENOUGH?... of that good-time, ''50s music? Buddy Holly can help you out. One of the most popular plays in Pacific Repertory Theater''s recent history is back by popular demand, starting Nov. 20. For ...
Quiet, loner characters meld into a family of sorts in The Station Agent.
Photo: Good Friends: Fin (Peter Dinklage, right) befriends some odd characters when he inherits an abandoned train depot. Fans of independent movies will recall the actor Peter Dinklage from the first time they saw him ...
Foodchain
THANKFUL FOR WHAT EXACTLY?... Seems like we went from goblins to gobble gobble gobbling in the twitch of a turkey jowl. I can't believe it's already Thanksgiving. You know what that means...that's right, we have ...
Bang A Gong: A shopping center liquor store gets its groove on.
Photos by Jane Morba: Boys In The Band: Randy Swanser (above left) and Dozer Riot on keyboards; Ki Pae (below) keeps the beat. It''s a sleepy little town a smidge past sundown. The sidewalks have ...
November 20-27
thursday 11|20 Alegria 10-11:50am. Afro-Cuban jazz group Alegria performs a lecture/demonstration, joined by CSUMB musician Paul Contos. Free. CSU Monterey Bay, Music and Performing Arts Institute, Sixth Ave., Seaside. 582-3653. Senior Thanksgiving 11:30am. Seaside offers ...
Home on the Range in Carmel Valley.
Photos by Brett Wilbur: Horsin'' Around: Two quarter horses and a riding ring make this Carmel Valley home a multi-purpose property. Jim and Cathy Peifer''s mid-Carmel Valley home has, as Realtor Judy Lyle describes it, ...
Mommas in the Marketplace.
There it sat on the dining room table exuding kryptonite: the Sunday New York Times Magazine with the cover headline: "Q: Why Don''t More Women Get to the Top? A: They Choose Not To." The ...
Satellite technology aides treasure hunters in the high-tech sport of geocaching.
It is a beautiful September day on Del Monte Beach. Across the bay, the Santa Cruz Mountains look like shadows in the afternoon sun. It is the kind of scene I could ponder all day ...
Local Muslims bake for the end of Ramadan.
Photo by Jane Morba: Sweet Tea: Muslims mark the end of Ramadan with cookies and tea. On November 25, the world''s more than one billion Muslims will celebrate Eid al-Fitr, one of Islam''s most cherished ...
Hotpicks
friday 11|21 Darkness on the Edge of Town POLAROID STORIES Older folks, the addicted and the mentally ill are not the only people living on the streets and in the dark corners. Kids end up ...
Newsbriefs
Farr Challenges FORA Board AgainThe Fort Ord Reuse Authority board insists that a report released last Friday confirms the impossibility of dedicating 50 percent of future development on the base to affordable housing. But Rep. ...
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BOB SEGER AND THE SILVER BULLET BANDGreatest Hits 2Capitol The true king of proletariat rock he is and was, Bob Seger is far more the nuts n' bolts man of that genre than anyone else, ...
The Red Pill or the Blue Pill? Asked at Galaxy 6 Cinema in Monterey.
Q: If artificial intelligence were to come about how do you think it would impact humanity?Follow-up: What do you think is the most revolutionary invention of all time? Martin SilvaStudent | SalinasA: I think it ...
Local blues songstress celebrates new live CD release.
March 7, 2003 was a big day for blues singer Kaye Bohler. In addition to celebrating her 40th birthday, the singer spent the evening recording her first live CD in front of a full crowd ...
Dead Calm: Autopsy tech Angela Mainor says slicing into a cadaver's skull and weighing body parts is just part of the job.
Photo by Jane Morba: Stiff Work: It''s chilly, it stinks, but Angela Mainor says she loves her job at the County Coroner''s office. Angela Mainor spends her days in a morgue. The 27-year-old forensic autopsy ...
Squid Fry for Nov 13, 2003
ANIMAL HOUSE... Some cities have rat problems. Others are pigeon infested. And some cities, apparently, have goats. Pigs, too, according to Seaside Animal Control Officer Rob DuCoeur. "I have been picking up goats and pigs ...
November 13-20
thursday 11|13 Big Sur Volunteers 9am. Lynn Overtree seeks help with stewardship projects, such as plant maintenance, at Palo Corona Ranch. Call for directions, 625-5523, ext. 15. CSUMB Turkey Trot 9am. A 4.8-mile run and ...
Fundraiser could save MPC drama class.
Photo: Many of the Hand In Glove Players have Down syndrome, but that isn''t what audiences notice. The lights go down. Monterey Peninsula College students, dressed in all black except for their white gloves and ...
North Fremont tax district looks to attract tourists and pedestrians.
In 1995, when Richard Griffith bought the space where Griffith''s Furniture now sits on North Fremont Street in Monterey, it had been sitting empty for three years. Prostitutes and drug addicts were once a common ...
Letters to the Editor for Nov 13, 2003
Don't Golf and RideI guess I could pride myself as an environmentalist, along with the majority of the members of the Pebble Beach Company, with their media idealistic image--of preservation with a gentrification objective--for the ...
In Frances Payne Adler's new book, poetry is politics.
During the 1991 Gulf War, poet Frances Payne Adler heard that the United States had invented a missile and named it the "Patriot." Avidly anti-war, she responded by asking what a "Matriot" might look like. ...
Patrick O'Brian's historical novels come to life on the high seas.
Photo: Seafaring Gentleman: Russell Crowe takes on the role of brave and respected Capt. Aubrey. Based on Patrick O''Brian''s novels Master and Commander and The Far Side of the World, from the author''s "Aubrey/Maturin" historical ...
News Briefs
Fort Ord Watchdogs Given Three-Day Eviction Notice LeVonne Stone, the outspoken founder of the Fort Ord Environmental Justice Network (FOEJN) received an eviction notice last week at her office, located in a corner of Fort ...
Supe candidate Smith hopes to add to mystery war chest at bigwig fundraiser this week.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Turnabout is Fair Play: Democrat turned Republican Jerry Smith looks to trade in Seaside Mayor for County Supervisor. Jerry Smith''s camp says the Seaside-Mayor-turned-county-supervisor candidate has $75,000 in his campaign war ...
New Jo Mora shows feature different facets of this local legend's greatness.
Photo: Renaissance Man: Sculptor, painter, author, illustrator, cartoonist, muralist Jo Mora. Artist Jo Mora (1876-1947) stands taller than many who constitute the art history of this region because of his mastery of so many forms ...
Hotpicks
thursday 11|13 Romantic Rascals PARIS BOHEMIANS One could imagine that the Left Bank of Paris in the 1930s was an artistic scene on par with the San Francisco 1969 scene, with slightly different drugs. Thirza ...
Sudden Oak Death has been laying waste to Big Sur and the California coastal forest. A team of scientists climbs through the forest, collecting acorns and asking: Why?
Photo by: Jane Morba Keyt Fischer skitters down a trail toward Devil''s Canyon in Big Sur, flashing past tree after tree after tree. Behind goggle-like glacier glasses, she gasses and steers a rugged, red and ...
Food Chain
KUDOS FROM CRA: Didn''t have a chance to get to this year''s California Restaurant Association, Monterey County Restaurateur Hall of Fame Dinner, always one of my favorites. I especially wanted to salute this year''s honorees, ...
The Penny Farthing brings a bit of British flavor to Oldtown Salinas.
Photo by Jane Morba: British Invasion: There''s something fun and cozy about the Penny Farthing. "So now what is this thing I''m supposed to try?" I managed to grunt out to my sitter while tugging ...
British romantic comedy triumphs the optimism of love.
Photo: Liam Neeson (right) plays a widower who must comfort himself and his son after his wife''s death. Taking the ensemble romantic comedy just about as far as it can go, Love Actually (which is ...
Singer-songwriter Mark Erelli's an articulate country boy from Massachusetts.
Photo: Gone Country Blues: Mark Erelli and Kaye Bohler. On the first song on Mark Erelli''s The Memorial Hall Recordings, it seems like an error must have been made. The voice singing over the shuffling ...
Serious Funnies: Aaron McGruder asserts his right to be hostile in The Boondocks.
I can''t remember what those kids were doing in the first Boondocks comic I saw, but I do remember exactly what passed through my mind when I read it: "How the hell did this get ...
Polished in Pebble Beach.
Photos by Brett Wilbur: Sea Mist: This Pebble Beach home has views of the ocean, golf course, and gardens. Linda and David Shake love light. In fact, they''ve made it their personal mission to let ...
Foodchain
FROTHY LOVE... The first annual Monterey Beer Festival: "Brew With A View" is behind us and proved what we anticipated--Monterey was thirsty for a beer festival. Nothing of any magnitude can be accomplished without help ...
November 6-13
thursday 11|6 Senior's Mental Health Lecture 1pm. Psychologist Lotte Marcus gives a lecture on cultural and personal expectations of aging and the elderly. Donations accepted at the door. Sally Griffin Senior Center, 700 Jewell Ave, ...
Newsbriefs
Food and Politics W/ LunchLearn about aggressive food industry lobbing tactics, how they shape federal guidelines, and how they promote obesity. Over lunch. From a woman who shares a surname with a chocolate bar. No, ...
Staff Players' presentation of Firebugs is sure to kindle controversy.
Photo: Where There''s Smoke...: Characters in Firebugs ignore crucial warning signs. Ignore or run from the confrontation of truth that stares you in the face and risk the consequences of annihilation. Such is the dark ...
Marinus has received Zagat's highest rating, and deserves it.
Photo by Jane Morba: Masterful: Chef Cal Stamenov has guided Bernardus Lodge''s Marinus to the top of the Zagat Guides''s 2004 list. If Cal Stamenov--executive chef of a burgeoning group of Carmel Valley restaurants that ...
Sarah Polley plays a dying young mother in the serene My Life Without Me.
Photo: The Last Chance: Ann (Sarah Polley) chooses to experience new love as her last few months on Earth end. One of the most difficult film genres to manage successfully is that of the dying ...
Streettalk
Q: What are your feelings on the Crystal Theater being torn down to make way for a new multiplex?Follow-up: What''s the best movie you''ve seen lately? Karyn MacDonaldCosmetologist | SalinasA: I hate to see it ...
UNA Film Festival is organized around respect.
Photo: Movie Truth: This year''s United Nations Association Film Festival is built around the theme of "Universal Respect." When Larry Levine heard that Jasmina Bojic of the United Nations Association (UNA) chapter in Palo Alto ...
Marina Planning Commission ignores citizens' alternative; pushes Marina Heights project to council.
Photo by Jane Morba: Doorbell Democracy: Marina City councilman Bruce Delgado is going door-to-door to warn residents about what he sees as flaws in the Marina Heights Project. For weeks, Marina City Councilman Bruce Delgado ...
Honey Hush puts the rock in classic rock.
Photo: Wanted Dead or Alive: The members of Honey Hush. Local rock band Honey Hush indulges in every rock n'' roll cliche in the book. Lead singer Troy O''Shann struts around the stage in leather ...
Letters to the Editor for Nov 06, 2003
PB Plan Will Save ForestAlmost everyone I knew opposed the Spanish Bay Hotel and Golf Course. Now the benefits from it include 150 acres of perpetual open space, native plant restoration on 17 Mile Drive, ...
Veterans make Vintage a R&B connoisseur's R&B band.
After playing in Noah and the Classic Rhythm Maker, The Filo Rockers, The Islanders, The Counts, The Starlight Band and The Bay Toppers, local bassist Felix Mante is having a blast with his new band, ...
Burn site littered with rockets.
Photo by Jane Morba: Still Packs a Punch: Army officials like Col. Jeff Cairns of the Presidio of Monterey (left) say that 50-year-old rockets found after the Fort Ord burn are still deadly. As if ...
Local Coast Guardsmen and Reservists fight to keep their spirits up in Iraq.
Photo by Jane Morba: Sigrid Daffner (left) and Lori Marshall wait at home while their National Guardsmen fight in Iraq. Their soldiers left on Valentine''s Day. Lori Marshall''s fiance, Capt. Charles Hancock, and Sigrid Daffner''s ...
Bush Ignores Soldiers' Burials: The Pentagon has outlawed photos of dead soldiers' coffins, and the president will not be seen anywhere near their funerals.
Last Monday and Tuesday, amid the suicide bombing carnage that left at least 34 Iraqis dead, three more US servicemen were killed in combat in Iraq. Saturday, perhaps another 20 (the exact number is still ...
Water Board celebration goes glum.
Photo by Jessica Lyons: Why Is This Man Smiling? Zan Henson, former water board member, at what was supposed to be an election night victory party. The mood at an election-night party for Kristi Markey, ...
Dancing to Be Free: At Chautauqua Hall's Friday night freestyle dance jam in PG, dancers let it all hang out.
Photo by Jane Morba: Free As a Bird: Dancers at the Freestyle Dance Jam are encouraged to let movement be their ticket to personal expression. It''s a Friday night, Halloween, and like just every Friday ...
Fred Wilson discusses his provocative work at CSUMB.
Photo: Shock Value: A Ku Klux Klan hood rests in a turn of the century baby carriage next to a photograph titled "Mount Vernon Place," in "Mining the Museum," an installation by artist Fred Wilson. ...
More For The Money in Seaside.
Photo: Two For One: This Seaside residence is actually two homes on one lot, separated by garages. Deanna Sinsel has got the kind of home that inspires jealousy, especially in other parents. Although the mother ...
Discspace
VARIOUS ARTISTSBird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix ProjectSavoy Jazz Melding hip-hop and jazz samples can't be considered truly cutting edge anymore. Artists such as Tribe Called Quest, DJ Shadow and the Digable Planets have all ...
Squid Fry for Nov 06, 2003
GOOD FENCES... Ahhh, the sweet smell of pork in the morning. In truth, Squid likes bacon, but not pork barrels. Squid's talking about the Naval Postgraduate School's soon-to-be built $2.1 million new perimeter fence, which ...
Dissenting Carmel council member is hanging up her spurs.
Barbara Livingston, the outspoken member of the Carmel City Council, has announced that she will not seek another term when her seat is up for reelection next Spring. "Twelve years is a long time," Livingston ...
Hotpicks
thursday 11|6 Sondheim Spectacular SIDE BY SIDE If you are a fan of Broadway musicals, you'll be excited to hear that Stephen Sondheim is coming to Monterey Peninsula College. Not the man himself but some ...
Sylvia offers little insight into a complex psyche.
Photo: Doomed Love: Poet Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) falls for poet Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig) on the first date. Like Frida Kahlo, American poet Sylvia Plath has become a pre-feminist icon struggling against societal constraints ...
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JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROSStreetcoreHellcat RecordsAfter forays into an eclectic blend of world music on his last two albums, Joe Strummer's posthumous release with The Mescaleros is basically a return to rock album. Ironically, some ...
Artifacts
IRIS DART... Pebble Beach''s own New York Times best-selling author (for Beaches) will be signing copies of her newest novel Thursday at the Thunderbird Bookshop in The Barnyard. Some Kind of Miracle, released just last ...
How to Succeed in Business uses a dated premise but stays alive.
Photo: Lap of Luxury: J.B. Biggley, played by Bill Lindsay, gets a lapful from Hedy LaRue, played by Michele Colvin. Sure, the witty skewering of the business climate that won How to Suceed in Business ...
Streettalk
Q: Do you believe in ghosts or other supernatural creatures?Follow-up: What''s your favorite scary movie? Anita EnglishHorse Trainer | SalinasA: Of course I do. I''ve actually felt a presence in my home, which is a ...
E-40 keeps keepin' it real.
On E-40''s latest release, Breakin'' News, the Bay Area rapper shows why he is still an underground legend after almost 10 years in the game. On the album''s title track, Forty raps about sippin'' St ...
Pebble Beach's private woods, a world-class resource, is still on the verge of...something.
Company Town Mark Stillwell, the Pebble Beach Company''s vice president and general counsel, glides his company car off 17 Mile Drive and onto a dirt pull-out. He has been giving me and photographer Jane Morba ...
A Private Retreat in Pacific Grove.
Photos by Brett Wilbur: Well Done: This PG retreat sits on three lots, has a private well for landscaping, and a reservoir behind it that creates a forest-like setting. Kathleen O''Brien and her husband Richard ...
Newsbriefs
Planned Parenthood ExpandsPlanned Parenthood staffers, donors, community leaders and politicians celebrated the initial stage of construction of a new Salinas Health Center at a "Hard Hat" luncheon on Oct. 24, with speakers including state Assemblyman ...
Day of the Dead traditions change with the times.
Photos by Jane Morba: Ofrende: Professor Zielina explains the meaning of the altars. El Día de los Muertos is upon us, and it''s time in Central California to reconsider what the Nov. 1 celebration means. ...
